-To refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self denial from an action or practice

Altruistic-Adjective

-Characterized by unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others

-Characterized by behavior by an animal that is not beneficial to or may be harmful to itself but that benefits others of its species

Assiduous-Adjective

-Marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application

Concise-Adjective

-Marked by brevity of expression or statement, free from all elaboration and superfluous detail

-Cut short, brief

Repulse-Verb & Noun

-To drive or beat back; repel

-To repel by discourtesy, coldness, or denial

-To cause repulsion in

-Rebuff; rejection

-The actions of repeeling an attacker: the fact of being repelled

Dimintive-Adjective

-Indicating small size and sometimes the state or quality of being familiarly known, loveable, pitable, or contemptible- used of affixes such as -ette, -kin, -ling, and words formed with them(kitchenette, manikin, duckling)

-Exceptionally notable or small

Inexorable-Adjective

-Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty, relentless

Wan-Adjective & Verb

-Suggestive of poor health: sickly, pallid

-Lacking vitality: feeble

-Dim, faint

-To grow or become pale or sickly

Precocious-Adjective

-Exceptionally early in development or occurence

-Exhibiting mature qualities at an unusually early age

Discern-Verb

-To seperate, distinguish between

-To detect with the eyes

-To detect with other senses other than vision

-To recognize and identify as seperate and distinct

-To see or understand the difference

Quell-Verb & Noun

-To thoroughly overwhem or reduce to submission or passivity

-Slaughter

Indiscriminate-Adjective

-Not marked by careful distinction, deficent in discrimination and discernment

-Haphazard, random

-Promiscuous, unrestrained

-Heterogeneous, motely

Preclude-Verb

-To make impossible by necessary consequence

-Rule out in advance

Expedite-Verb

-To execute promptly

-To accelerate the process or progress of: speed up

-Issue, dispatch

Disclose-Verb

-To expose to view

-To make known or public

Abstract-Adjective

-Disassociated from any specific instance

-Difficult to understand

-Insufficently factual

-Having only intrinsic form with little or no attempt at pictorial representation

Thwart-Verb

-To run counter to so as to effectively oppose or baffle

-To oppose successfully: defeat the hopes ot aspirations of

-To pass through or across

Enigma-Noun

-An obscure speech or writing

-Something hard to understand or explain

-An inscrutable or mysterious person

Reciprocate-Verb

-To give and take mutually

-To return in kind or degree

-To make a return for something

-To mave forward and backward alternately

Conjecture-Noun

-To throw together

-Interpretation of omens

-Supposition

-Inference from defective or presumptive evidence before it has been proved or disproved

Hamlet-Noun

-A small village

Querulous-Adjective

-Habitually complaining

-Fretful, whining

Amicable-Adjective

-Characterized by friendly goodwill, peaceable

Harbinger-Noun

-A person sent ahead to provide lodgings

-One that pioneers in or initiates a major change: precursor

-One that presages or foreshadows what is to come

Transient-Adjective & Noun

-Passing especially quickly into and out of exstence: transitory

-Passing through or by a place with only a brief stay or sojourn

-Affecting something or producing results beyond itself

-One that is a guest

-A person travelling about usually in search of work

-A temporary oscillation that occurs in a circuit because of a sudden change of voltage or load

Timorous-Adjective

-A timid dispostion, fearful

-Expressing or suggesting timidity

Indigenous-Adjective

-Having originated in and being produced, growing, living, or ocurring naturally in a particuale region or enviroment

-Innate, inborn

Expropriate-Verb

-To deprive of pocession or propriety rights

-To transfer the property of another to one's own pocession

Indomitable-Adjective

-Incapable of being subdued: unconquerable

Eminent-Adjective

-Standing out so to be readily percieved or noted: conspicuous

-Jutting out: projecting

-Exhibiting eminence especially in standing above others in some quality or postion: prominent

Nefarious-Adjective

-Flagantly wicked or impious: evil

Inherent-Adjective

-Involved in the constitution or essential character of something: belong by nature or habit: intrinsic

Oligarchy-Noun

-Government by the few

-A govenrment in which a small group exercises control, especially for corrupt and selfish putposes